8/4/2023 0 Comments First bite by bee wilson![]() With other words, tastes are experienced at home and after many years of repeating, they are condensed into strong habits. Some children learn to prefer spicy foods, while in Japan natto beans are a delight for little kids. However, every food culture is different. In all cultures, newborn children have a preference for sweet flavors and dislike the bitter. In The First Bite, Wilson explores how tastes are not merely shaped by genetics but mainly through learning. It is a matter of common sense that eating too much salty, sugary and fatty processed foods might be not the most compassionate way to treat our precious organs and cells. She reckons that adults already know very well what kind of nutritional foods are best to eat and what a healthy diet is. She shows that food habits are shaped by a whole host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. The overarching question Wilson asks in her book is how we acquire our tastes and what might be done to change these. Wilson writes: “We are not born knowing what to eat as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves.” Isn’t this the struggle most parents have to deal with?Even for a vast majority of the adults, eating is often a daily mental challenge. ![]() In fact, also we -as mindful eating teachers- ask our participants in mindful eating training similar kinds of questions. Nutritional experts lecture us about what we ought to eat, Wilson wants to understand why we eat what we do. She is interested how we come to acquire bad food tastes and how we might help to change them. In her book ‘The First Bite’, food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research of psychologists, neuroscientists and nutritionists to reveal how our food patterns are shaped.
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